Epidemiology is made by epidemiologists. Knowing what happened in their lives can be interesting for other epidemiologists, and can also help epidemiologists understand the bases and nature of their contributions to the evolution of the field.

Background publications

Holland, WW, Olsen, J, Florey CdV. The Development of Modern Epidemiology. Personal reports from those who were there. Oxford University Press, 2007

Eyler J (1979). Victorian social medicine: the ideas and methods of William Farr. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Eyler JM (1980). The conceptual origins of William Farr's epidemiology: numerical methods and social thought in the 1830s. Time, places, and persons. A. M. Lilienfeld. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1–21.

Hogben L (1950–51). Major Greenwood. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 7: 139–54.

Humphreys NA (1885). Biographical sketch of William Farr. Vital Statistics: a memorial volume of selections from the Reports and Writings of William Farr. London: Office of the Sanitary Institute: vii–xxiv.